In the film, she is first seen in a comically small twin bed next to Brodie. She knocks on his skull to wake him, and he immediately starts to play a video game he had suspended before going to sleep. As the scene unfolds, it becomes clear that Rene is fed up with Brodie's thoroughly uninspired antics and ensuing lack of sex drive, which prompts him to utter, "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned for Sega." They argue, and she exits through his basement bedroom's window to avoid being seen by his overbearing mother. On her way out, she tosses a letter at Brodie indicating that their relationship is over.